Sanitation Salvage, who had its license temporarily pulled after a drive killed two people on two separate incidents still has at least two contracts with the city, critics charge. (Gardiner Anderson/New York Daily News)

A troubled private garbage hauling company whose employee fatally ran over two people is closing up shop, the Daily News has learned.

Sanitation Salvage sent a letter to the city’s Business Integrity Commission that it is “surrendering its license” and ceasing operations, sources with knowledge of the case said.

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The Bronx-based company earned the ire of the city council — which led to its license being suspended for a month — after it was revealed that garbage man Sean Spence allegedly killed two people on his route — and lied about one of his victims.

On Nov. 7, 2016, Spence fatally struck co-worker Mouctar Diallo on Jerome Ave. near E. Gun Hill Road in Norwood. Diallo was working off the books for Sanitation Salvage as a trash hauler, but Spence told police that his helper was a panhandler who approached his truck “looking for a handout.”

The BIC learned of the deception after Spence allegedly ran over Leon Clark on E. 152nd St. near Jackson Ave. in Morrisania on April 27.

He has not yet been charged criminally in either death, but has been barred from driving a trash truck in the city.

Sanitation Salvage appears to blame the BIC for the company’s downfall.

“BIC’s unlawful and ill-advised decision to suspend Sanitation Salvage’s license without any prior notice or opportunity to be heard has doomed the company as a viable going concern,” attorneys at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP wrote in a letter acquired by the Daily News.

Despite their suspension, the company has a more than $1 million contract with the city Housing Authority to pick up bulk refuse at several housing complexes in the Bronx, sources said.

“We are moving to cancel our contract while ensuring that there is no interruption in service to our residents,” a NYCHA spokeswoman told The News before the carting company went out of business.

An email to Sanitation Salvage for comment was not immediately returned.

On Aug. 24, the city BIC served the company with a notice of emergency suspension for demonstrating a “pattern of unsafe business operations that creates an imminent danger to life and property.”

A month later, Sanitation Salvage’s license was restored, although the city demanded that it hire an independent monitor to watch the company.

“Sanitation Salvage has proven time and again that they pose grave dangers to pedestrians and their workers,” Council Member Antonio Reynoso, the chair of the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management, said Tuesday.

“The month-long suspension of Sanitation Salvage’s license in August was a step in the right direction, but it is time that the company’s license is fully revoked.”

In its letter to BIC, Sanitation Salvage said that after the city suspended its license, it “informed Sanitation Salvage’s competitors of the company’s routes and customers, inviting them to tortuously solicit (its) customers for business.

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“Due to this and other unlawful conduct by BIC, Sanitation Salvage lost its most critical customers, and the customers that remained with the company provide insufficient revenue to support the company’s operations,” the law firm said in its letter.

A source with knowledge of the case said that Sanitation Salvage attempted to sell the company, but had no serious takers, so they decided to shut down.

BIC will make sure that Sanitation Salvage doesn’t reopen under a new name, the source said.

“We always look at a new company’s principals and associates,” the source said. “It’s going to be a big job for these guys to get back in.”